Boot or shoe



(No Model.)

G. G. BUGH.

BOOT 0R SHOE.

No. 281,664; Pat nted Jul 24, 18 83.

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- a new and useful Improvement in Boots or UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

GEORGE o. BUOH, or EUREKA, MISSOURI.

BOOT OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,664, dated July 24, 1853.

- Application filed February 7, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- 7 Be it known that I, GEORGE O. BUOH, of Eureka, St; Louis county, Missouri, have made Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact'description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a view in perspective showing (inverted) that part of the boot or shoe with which the improvement is immediately connected; Fig. 2, a view in perspective of the removable portion of the heel; Fig. 3, a view in perspective of the frame used in attaching the heel proper to the boot or shoe; Fig. 4:, a view in perspective showing the counter-extension, and Fig. a vertical transverse section through the improved heel. '7

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The present invention relates to that portion of the boot or shoe immediately connected with the heel; and it consists in an improved mode of constructing and attaching the heel.

' A, Fig. 1, represents a boot .0r shoe. Only that part of the boot or shoe is shown that is directly associated with the improvement, the remainder of the boot or shoe being of the customary form. v

B represents the sole.

0 represents the counter. In place of terminating the counter at the level'of the sole,

as hitherto has been the practice, the counter is extended at 0 below the level of the sole, and in practice about two-thirds the depth of the heel, and substantially as shown in Figs.

'1, 4., and '5: Afram'e, D, is applied to the outer side' of the counter-extension C, the frame being fitted to the extension, and preferably having an inwardly-turned flange, (1, which, when the frame is in position, comes against the edge a of the extension 0, as seen more distinctly in Fig. 5.

E represents the heel. It is shaped to fit the space O", inclosed by the counter-exten- 4 sion, extending, also, below the extension, and

at its lower end being suitably enlarged to conform to the shape and size of the frame D, substantially as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 5, the enlargement serving both to strengthen and to give the proper finishto the construction.-

By means of suitable fasteningssuch as the article of merchandise, manufacturing them of leather, rubber, or other suitable material, and supplying them to the trade ready to be as in the manner described.

The counter-extension G of itself serves, with the fastenings G, to hold the heel in place; but the frame D is a valuable auxiliary, the frame serving to strengthen the counter-extension and support the heel, and the frame-flange (1 serving to stiffen and strengthen frame in a lateral direction. 7

The frame may be of leather, metal, or any material suitable for the purpose, and it may not extend higher than the sole, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, 5; or it may be extended above the sole, asshown at D. I

I claim In a boot or shoe, the combination of the heel E, recessed around its upper edge, with the counter-stiffener (3, having the downward extension, and the flanged frame D, all secured together and to the boot or shoe by metallic fastenings, substantially as set forth.

G. .0. BUOH.

Witnesses:

O, D. MooDY, F. F.'MATHIS.

attached to the boot or shoe, and substantially 

